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j ' , , . 1 '*! [ I Children 'dip' snuff frequently TULSA, Okla. (AP) ? Elementary school children seem to be "dipping" snuff more frequently, educators and health officials say, and instructors are adding warnings about smokeless tobacco to oral hygiene programs. "it's a Dig thing around here to have a snuff can ring in your back pocket," said Sue Cousatte, Ottawa-Delaware County dental health educator. Use of smokeless tobacco among children has become a "peer pressure thing," she said. 4,It may be worse in the Southwest because of our cowboy heritage, but smokeless tobacco use by younger children seems to be increasing nationwide," said Dr. Mike Morgan, who heads state dental health education programs. Dr. Joan Leavitt, state health commissioner, said informa tion about the dangers of smokeless tobacco is being added to oral hygiene programs in elementary school classrooms this year. Ghost-hunter searches Capitol ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? There've been persistent reports of something rattling through the state Capitol other than resolutions and bills, and ghost-hunter Norman Gauthier is hoping to nail down the tales in time for Halloween. "I look for buildings that are unusual and unique and with historical significance," Gauthier said Monday as he arranged to arrive at the Capitol at about sunset Wednesday to begin a vigil on the fifth floor of the 19th century structure. Through his recording equipment he hopes to catch the sound of footsteps or perhaps even an eerie phrase or two. For years there have been reports of something moving through the night on a usually deserted top floor of the Capitol. "I've heard the cleaning crews don't want to go up there," said Daniel Barr, a former press aide to the late Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. Generally, the ghost stories suggest the "spirit" may be that of night watchman Sam Abbott, killed in a fire in 1911. Or, according to Gauthier, it might be the lost soul of a construction foreman who supposedly died when he fell through a floor at the Capitol in 1877. However, the Capitol's unofficial historian and author of "Capitol Story," C.R. Roseberry, says "if they have to have a candidate" ? and if he believed in ghosts ? he'd pick artist William Morris Hunt. Roseberrv said Hunt, a Boston artist, renortedlv killed himself after murals he produced for the Assembly chamber in the 1870s were described as mere "ornamentation" and funds were cut off. "Here 1 am in my own world, and 1 want to stay here," Hunt had been quoted as saying. "The common thread (among haunted houses) seems to be a violent death," says Gauthier, whose car is easier to spot than most spirits. Just look for the license plate: "GHOSTS." Video game popular in Japan TOKYO (AP) ? For the price of a video game, Japanese can pretend to prosecute former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in the Lockheed bribery scandal and send him directly to jail. The trial that resulted in Tanaka's real-life conviction last week dragged on for nearly seven years. The video computer game "Prime Minister's Crime" took its developers three months to create and put on the market. Masami Sato of Computer Services Corp. said the case made for a good subject for a game and denied any political motive in designing "Prime Minister's Crime," which sells for the pnnivalpnt of Tanaka, 65, was found guilty by the Tokyo District Court of taking aircraft in Japan while he was prime minister from 1972 to 1974. Tanaka immmediately appealed the verdict to a high court and was released on bail. He has defied demands from the media and opposition parties that he resign his seat in parliament. Players in the video game, Sato said, take on the role of prosecutor, questioning "Tanaka," other defendants and witnesses. A. 1 1 A ' ?- -* * * ^ * - *? ^ wnen ine piayer as*s tuugn quesuon, me aeienuani s iace will turn red or pale. Later, the video "Tanaka" starts confessing, something the real politician has never done, Sato said. A player can also "search" Tanaka's house. The more pofnts the player scores, the higher the penalty, up to the prosecution's actual demand of a five-year prison term, Sato said. The district court gave Tanaka a four-year sentence. | USC today cti mFMT crw a tc" n c r .in a 1 uue<ii a ijrvii/i i r> ? mutjiihy. uhicuh, roum uiu. a;ju I p.m. ! DEBATE ? Athenian Literary and Debating Society. "Elitist i Education." Law Center, room 345. 8 p.m. | SPEECH ? Association of Afro American Students. Speaker: Milton Gibson. Russell House Ballroom, 7 p.m. | SOCCER ? USC vs. UNC-Wilmington. Graveyard, 4 p.m. i VOLLEYBALL ? USC vs. College of Charleston. Blatt P.E. Center, 6:30 p.m. ! RH FILM ? "Camille" (1936). Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore. Alexander Dumas' romantic tragedy. 2:30, 7, 9:30 p.m. 50 cents, 75 cents. Appellate coi (AP) ? South Carolina's new interim appellate court has begun the job of whittling down the backlog of ap pcais piling up in iiic Mitic ? wuu system. The first day of court for the new South Carolina Court of Appeals was Monday, culminating five years of legislative debate over it. "This court is new, but it is the child of a very old legal system," Alex Sanders, the court's chief judge, said during an inaugural ceremony. "IT IS the beginning of much hard work to overcome the delays in our appellate system, which the chief justice of this state (Woodrow Lewis) has described as a grievous impediment to justice." Sanders said. The court is a temporary one, authorized to operate only until July 1, 1985. The first order of business for the court Monday was a tax case between a fund-raising group for the Citadel and Greenville County. B8; _:: _ , ._ "J '^MJf'^ y j^ ><? .^^ki^l^^.' tj? W- HgjHpr ' ^ 09 - ,x i H >t^ > SE *11 ^ ?* W1' ?J*s -. . v7 " wanao uiavuooiuii Jennie Haddock of USC's Thomas Cooper Augusta were in Columbia to learn about a Senate reappoi / a n\ o*-.*- o ? * * - ? aiaic oen. iviarion vjresseue sa; may have given up on Senate reapportion and he has called a meeting of a confere once again to work out a compromise. Gressette, D-Calhoun, chairs a Hou; committee assigned to come up with a coi ing the Senate into 46 single-member d 1980 census. The last conference committee meetinj the meeting was over, Sheheen said he th for the panel. Sheheen, who chairs the H mittee, said he thinks the conference cc up. STATE NAACP officials have threat lawsuit over the five-month-old redistrii conference committee fails to come up \ end of the month. Gressette, saying he thinks an agreei called a Thursday meeting of the panel. "While he (Sheeheen) may have given Group raises in CHARLESTON (AP) ? A Dreser vation group hopes to raise $300,000 so the flags that flew from Fort Sumter during the opening hours of the Civil War can once again return to the spot where the epic struggle began. "Flags simply put are symbols. These flags associated with Fort Sumter have come to symbolize a fouryear war, a nation, a cause, an outcome of unity," retired Gen. William Westmoreland told about 100 people I JL irt begins woi "It is the beginning of much hard work to overcome the delays in our appellate system, which which the chief justice of this state has described as a grievous impendiment to justice." Chief Appellate Court Judge Alex Sanders THE CASE involved the Daniel Building in Greenville, owned for two years by the Citadel group. Lawyers for the Citadel group said the property was exempt because the state-supported military college benefited from the money it raised and was there for that purpose. But lawyers for Greenville County said the foundation had "none of the Library lectures on research. Students from i ctive research. rtionment stale ys Rep. Bob Sheheen on it," the 81-ye< ment, but he has not Gressette said nee committee to try Fairfield area can come up with a s >e-Senate conference mpromise map draw- BUT SHEHEF istricts based on the "Somebody ha he said. "And apparen 5 was Sept. 29. When has to if things a inks time has run out Gressette said i louse Judiciary Com- and state Rep. J< >mmittee should give about the Calhoi DISAGREEM! ened to file a federal over how to reap cting stalemate if the viewed by many vith a solution by the the remap effort But Matthews; nent is still possible, tion to resolve th "I don't think up, I haven't given up Matthews said, " ionev for histori gathered at the windswept for Monday. "Next to the 'Star Spangled Banner of Fort McHenry fame, these flag: stand ironically together as a symbo of loyalty and national unity in thes< United States," he said. The three flags - the Union garrisoi flag, the storm flag and the Palmeth Guards flag - are presently in storagi at the National Park Service' curatorial facility in Harper's Ferry W.Va. m rk on backlog nttviUntoc nl' an pHnrafinn incf itiition '' ? ailllUUl^ V/l ?U And they wanted $239,000 in back taxes. THE APPEALS court will act as a new layer of judges, halfway between circuit court and the S.C. Supreme Court. Officials said the Court of Appeals is needed because the Supreme Court had a hard time handling all the appeals from the circuit court. From now on, the Court of Appeals will handle many of the appeals that Supreme Court used to get directly. Cases can still be appealed from the Court of Appeals to the State Supreme Court. But the Supreme Court isn't expected to have nearly as heavy a caseload since cases it hears must meet certain strict guidelines. The backlog of cases awaiting review in the Supreme Court has risen to 1,700, creating a four-year waiting time for litigants. f j*My^ Ptoto by BryaM Smith the fifth and seventh grades from North mate may end ir-old Senate president pro tempore said, if remap differences in the York-Chester| Kp rPCAK/oH tKn of il 1 U?o ?*v?a I uv IVOVI'^U, HIV tunillliuwt 31111 Ild3 unit olution. IN said someone has to be willing to give, is to go first,and somebody has to go last," tly nobody wants to go first,and somebody re to go forward." once the York problems are worked out, he ?hn Matthews will be able to come to terms m-Orangeburg area. ENTS BETWEEN Gressette and Matthews portion their neighboring counties had been lawmakers as the major stumbling block of and Gressette said Monday they are in a posileir differences. ; we'll have any problems," Gressette said. We basically have resolved those problems.'* ic S.C. flags t The group hopes to raise the money so the flags can be treated to protect > 1 -A- -! . " - me ucicrioraung cotton tabric and so a s giant display case can be built to 1 display them at the fort. "It is here, 100 years later we i preserve the momentos of a singular 3 struggle that while it split the country, e it also brought it back together," said s Arthur M. Wilcox, the chairman of , The Association to Save the Fort Sumter Flags.